Advice for Directory Structure

[David Freeman]

Hi All!

I'm developing a website for a software company. They want to publish news,
tip/tricks and other articles on company's news section.

I would like to get advice on
- how to name the individual article files? (There will be 1000s of them)
- how to let the user query it? (i.e. news/index.asp?artic leID=234544 or
what?)

I preffered a standard way to do all this. Pointer to any sample or tutorial
on this will be much appericated!!

David

[Manohar Kamath [MVP]]

Re: Advice for Directory Structure

David,

I am not a big fan of file system... not very portable. Could you store the
articles in database, preferably in XML format (or simply in attributed
manner -- separate date, headline, etc.)? This way, you can change the looks
of the article without resorting to reformating the text/html.

From a virtual directory point of view, I think what you are doing seems to
be just fine.

--
Manohar Kamath
Editor, .netWire

https://www.dotnetwire.com

"David Freeman" <noemail@nospam .com> wrote in message
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> I'm developing a website for a software company. They want to publish[/color]
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> tip/tricks and other articles on company's news section.
>
> I would like to get advice on
> - how to name the individual article files? (There will be 1000s of them)
> - how to let the user query it? (i.e. news/index.asp?artic leID=234544 or
> what?)
>
> I preffered a standard way to do all this. Pointer to any sample or[/color]
tutorial[color=blue]
> on this will be much appericated!!
>
> David
>
>[/color]

[Roland Hall]

Re: Advice for Directory Structure

"David Freeman" wrote in message
news:uNA5LQzFEH A.1228@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...
: I'm developing a website for a software company. They want to publish
news,
: tip/tricks and other articles on company's news section.
:
: I would like to get advice on
: - how to name the individual article files? (There will be 1000s of them)
: - how to let the user query it? (i.e. news/index.asp?artic leID=234544 or
: what?)
:
: I preffered a standard way to do all this. Pointer to any sample or
tutorial
: on this will be much appericated!!

Hi David...

You could use a database and a FSO to accomplish your goals. Use the
database to store specific information related to the files and text content
and files to store images with CSS templates used to format the data.

I'm sure there are numerous ways to accomplish what you want. IMHO,
assigning categories, as you would with a chart of accounts would be one
example for naming where characters in a filename represent a category.

Chart:
Category/Length:
Type: 1
SubType: 1
Article Number: 5

Types:
News: 1
Tip: 2
Other: 3

SubType:
Database: 1
Applications: 2
Support: 3

an ID of: 2101023 would be Article 1023 in the database tip area.

Your mileage will vary with your specific needs.

What I would not do is waste time using a category for data [current,
recent, archived] because you could just use a date column in your table and
use ranges when you query.

Current: 0-30 days
Recent: 31-90 days
Archived: 91+ days

If you use files to store your content then you can just test with
DateCreated, DateLastModifie d.

Aaron's site [aspfaq.com] appears to have what you're looking for. You
might want to see if he will provide you with some pointers to get you
going.

HTH...

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[David Freeman]

Re: Advice for Directory Structure

Hi All!

Thanks for all the input. I'm also looking around aspfaq.com for more
pointers.

Cheers
David

"David Freeman" <noemail@nospam .com> wrote in message
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> Hi All!
>
> I'm developing a website for a software company. They want to publish[/color]
news,[color=blue]
> tip/tricks and other articles on company's news section.
>
> I would like to get advice on
> - how to name the individual article files? (There will be 1000s of them)
> - how to let the user query it? (i.e. news/index.asp?artic leID=234544 or
> what?)
>
> I preffered a standard way to do all this. Pointer to any sample or[/color]
tutorial[color=blue]
> on this will be much appericated!!
>
> David
>
>[/color]